// Food Coop - Distribution

Food Coop - Distribution

Cinema Politica is proud to be the Canadian distributor of FOOD COOP, the first feature documentary by director Tom Boothe. Below you can read the film's synopsis, learn about the fllmmaker, and importantly—book this inspiring documentary for a screening in your community or at your festival/institution today!

ABOUT THE FILM

FOOD COOP takes us deep into the belly of the Park Slope Food Coop, one of America’s oldest cooperative food supermarket, with a healthy dose of insight and wit. Nestled deep in New York city, which, for many, exemplifies both the glory and the horrors of the capitalist spirit, you can find this highly prosperous institution, just as American and certainly more efficient than Wall Stret, but whose objective is entirely non-profit. Working against everything that defines “The American Way of Life,” the basic principles of the Park Slope Food Coop are simple: each of its 16 000 members work 2 hours 45 per month to earn the right to buy the best food in New York at incredibly low prices. Inspiring as much hatred as enthusiasm, this Brooklyn coop founded in 1973 is probably the best implemented socialist experience in the United States. Through FOOD COOP, you will see this institution come to life and witness how the enthusiasm that animates the Park Slope Food Coop demonstrates a potential for change; how the coop's mode of participation viscerally teaches democracy to those who take part in its activities.

Cinema Politica is the largest campus and community based documentary screening network in the world. We are a Montreal-based non-profit media arts organization dedicated to the dissemination of independent political works by Canadian and international filmmakers.